Crippled draw-bar for locomotive railway-cars.



No. 745,771. PATENTED DEC. 1, 1903. M. G. BLAKESLBE. GRIPPLED DRAW BARFOR LOGOMOTIVE RAILWAY CARS.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 9. 1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented December 1, 1903.

PATENT OEEIcE.

MERRICK O. BLAKESLEE, OF NICHOLSON, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF IONE-THIRD TO IRVING IV. BILLINGS, OF NICHOLSON, PENNSYLVANIA.

CRIPPLED DRAW-BAR FOR LOCOMOTlVE RAILWAY-CARS.

SEECIEIGATLTON forming part of Letters Patent No, 7%5,771, datedDecember 1, 1903.

Application filed April 9, 1903. Serial No. 151,936. (No model.)

1'0 0 65 w/wm it may concern:

Be itkn own that I, INIERRIOK G. BLAKESLEE, a citizen of the UnitedStates,residing at Nicholson, in the county of \Vyoming and State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful apparatus to be known as aDraw-Bar for Crippled Railway-Oars, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to improvements in emergency draft appliances;and the object of the invention is to provide means assembled with acoupling draw-bar for connecting the same with a car.

Another object of the invention is to construct an apparatus forconnecting two cars or the like in an assembled position without theemployment of the usual draw-bar upon one of said cars.

Still another object of the inventionis to construct an emergencydraw-bar which will bring the cars when in use in such close proximityas to permit the operation of the automatic air-brake.

IVit-h these and other objects in view the invention consists in thenovel construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fullydescribed, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and moreparticularly pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is afragmentary side view of the ends of twocars, showing my improved apparatus in an assembled position thereon.Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the device.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout boththe figures of the drawings.

In the drawings reference-numeral 1 indicates the draw-bar of a couplingdevice retained within suitable brackets 2, secured to the truck orframe of a car. A draw-bar or link3, provided with an elongated aperture4 and a bifurcated end 5, is adapted to be removably secured within thedraw-bar 1 by means of a suitable pin 6. Removably secured within thebifurcation of the link member 3 is an apertured plate 7. Said plate 7is provided with apertures formed near each end and the central aperturethrough which is passed a pin 8 when the said plate 7 is in an assembledposition with the member 3. Secured to the member 7and passing throughthe apertures in the ends of the said plate are chains 9, one link ofsaid chain engaging the apertures formed upon each end of the plate 7. Ayoke or U-shaped member 10 is provided with apertures 11 near theouterend. Said apertures are adapted to receive hooks 12.

When the coupling device on a car becomes disabled or is removed fromits position thereon, the two abutting cars may be retained in anassembled position by the employment of my device, and in thearrangement of the apparatus upon the ends of a pair of cars the member10 is adapted to partially encircle the transom or transverse bar 13formed upon the frame of a car, and the books 12, which are secured tothe member 10,are engaged by a link of the chains 9. Said 7o chains arecarried by the plate 7, mounted within the bifurcation of the linkmember 3.

It will be seen that the distance between the ends of the two cars canbe controlled by the adjustability of chains interposed between the linkmember retained in the draw-bar of one of the cars and the U-shaped oryoke member retained upon the transom of the disabled car.

The invention not only provides a simple efiticient device for thecoupling of a pair of cars together, but also provides means whereby itcan be retained in an assembled position relative thereto.

Although I have described the preferred form of my invention, I reservethe right to make such changes and modifications as shall fairly fallwithin the scope of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a device of the character described, the combination with adraw-bar, of a member detachably secured therein, a plate removablysecured to said member, duplicate flexible connections secured to saidplate, and a detachable clamp secured to said flexible connections.

2. An emergency apparatus comprising a rigid member, a detachable membersecured 10o thereto, duplicate connections secured to said detachablemember, and means joining the ends of said connections.

3. An emergency apparatus comprising a link, said link provided with abifurcation at one end and an elongated aperture near the opposite end,a plate removably secured within the bifurcation of said link, flexiblemeans secured to said plate, and a U-shaped clamp detachably secured tosaid flexible connection.

4. In a device of the character described, the combination with adraw-bar, a link removably secured therein comprising an apertured endportion and a bifurcated extension formed integral therewith, a platedetachably secured within said bifurcation said plate provided with apair of flexible connections and removable means secured theretoproviding means for encircling a member upon a car.

5. In a device of the character described, the combination with adraw-bar carried by a car, of a link detachably secured Within saiddraw-bar provided with a bifurcated extension at one end, an apertu redplate removably secured within said extension,a pair ofjointed memberssecured to said plate, a U-shaped clamp and hooks secured thereto forengaging joints in said jointed member.

6. An emergency draft apparatus comprising a bifurcated and an aperturedlink, a removable plate secured in said bifurcation of the link andhaving apertures formed near each end, a pair of link members secured tosaid plate in each of said apertures, a clamp provided with a pair ofhooks, and said hooks adapted to engage links upon the link members.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

MERRICK O. BLAKESLEE.

Witnesses:

Jos. M. BLAKESLEE, W. E. BILLINGS.

